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Daniel Larsen

Peter Eberhardy

Rubaiyat Khan

March Rogers

Bojana Ostojic

Alice Jane Brush

Stefanie J Danhope

Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer

Abigail Welborn

Alisa Yujin So

Hong Lin

Abigail Welbom

Daniel Stiner

A user sends a location request to a user of a group that requests the user's current location. For example, one family member may send a location request to another family member that is part of their family group for their current location. The user receiving the request may accept the location request or reject the location request. When the location request is reject, the requesting user is not provided with the current location information of the user. When the location request is accepted, the requesting user is provided with the current location information of the user. In addition to providing the location information to the requesting user, the location may also be shared with other members of the group. For example, a message may be sent to each of the family members that are part of the group that informs them that a member has updated their location.

Requesting a location of a user

A system for controlling a device to track the location of the device is provided. The system identifies an initial location of the device. The system then identifies a plurality of areas having different sizes. Each area encompasses the identified location. For each of the areas, the system registers the area with a location provider to receive a notification when the location provider detects that the device has left the area. Upon receiving a notification that the device has left an area, the system may repeat the process of identifying the location and the areas and registering the areas to continue tracking the location of the device.

Location tracking based on overlapping geo-fences

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